Cayman Islands

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Georgetown
We arrive at 4pm instead of 9am. due to engine problems.
I note that the chief engineer is Bulgarian and his assistant Ukrainian. Rumour has it that the ship is going to fly out an engineer from Germany who will be with us for the rest of the voyage. The ship's captain is English, one of the few on board.

We have had a day at sea and plenty of folk have taken the opportunity to fill us in on the history of the ship. No, its not new. In fact its quite old. It is only new to the Thomson fleet.

Did we know about the incident in the Red Sea? how the ship got hurled against a sea wall and suffered damage? true or false we don't know.

We are tendered ashore to Georgetown. This is a new experience for us. It is early evening and warm and we wander around Georgetown. I had expected something glitzy instead we are confronted by office blocks with dozens of brass banking plates.

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